19 thoughts on “Scapegoating Children in a Calculated Ploy to Win Votes is Child Abuse.”

I think some of his followers may genuinely fear those they consider exotic. I also think many of them are intellectually lazy; it’s so much easier to hate. That’s why I fear trump. He is an intellectually lazy man with a mean streak and now he has too much power.

He’s just about legitimised I’d say – but he is not well and his off the cuff remarks are dangerous because he has ultimate power… plus he’s released a rage, an uneducated rage that is like as not unable to be contained… I don’t have mental illness – and I’d say we’re doomed.

I remember how I felt as a child when I listened to anti-Semites spouting their bile. I was also a boy who liked to read and make art in a culture that institutionalized rigid gender roles and homophobia. As a result I was afraid to go to school and uncertain of my worth as a person. The only reason to
institutionalize racism and homophobia is to destroy the lives of these people before they can begin.

I’m not defending the horrors that were heaped upon you as a child, but humans tend to act poorly in the face of fear or things they don’t understand. I grew up in the 50s and 60s – so I remember the way homosexuality was reviled
I’m so sorry you had to grow up like that.

The reason you’re looking for a reason is the civilized mind can’t comprehend sadistic cruelty and unthinking brutality.

That makes you normal 🙂

But this is also why fascism often seems to come out of nowhere.

Normal people can’t comprehend a culture that gives people permission to torture
a group of designated scapegoats.

Those people in my neighborhood had nothing to fear from a five year old.

They knew they had nothing to fear from me.

They just wanted to hurt me.

They wanted to hurt my mind.

They wanted me to hate myself and above all, they wanted me to know that white Southern Baptists were better than any Jew was and it was important to their parents to beat that into me before I even had a chance to think.

When we relieve ourselves of the self-imposed restraints of the rule of law
we behave like savages.

Who can comprehend the daily lives of Germans who lived near the concentration
camps yet pretended they didn’t know the smoke from the chimneys was once
a group of human beings.

Who can comprehend the unbelievable evil of testing marketing the scapegoating
transgendered students to win the votes of extremist crackpots?